Dogs have one gene that controls how much melanin is produced, a second gene that controls whether melanin is deposited in the fur, and a third gene that controls whether melanin is produced at all. What do you call the interaction of these three genes?

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This interaction is an example of duplicate-recessive epistasis, where two recessive alleles at either of two loci can suppress a phenotype, such as melanin production and deposition in this case.

Dogs Have One Gene That Controls How Much Melanin Is